Microservices Jobs

Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Microservices skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Microservices over the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 83 54
Rank change year-on-year +7 -29 -23
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,985 3,076 4,466
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.30% 2.98% 5.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.68% 3.62% 5.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1,006 2,242 2,968
10th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £48,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £75,554
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% -13.97% +0.74%
75th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £106,250 £113,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £66,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% -5.30% +5.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 53,906 85,087 81,457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 89.73% 82.48% 95.47%
Number of salaries quoted 28,389 58,040 52,423
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £38,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%
75th Percentile £74,258 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Microservices as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microservices.

Salary trend for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 16 July 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +15 1,796 £72,500 +11.54% 1,412
UK excluding London -4 1,263 £70,000 +12.00% 991
Work from Home +12 1,113 £70,000 +7.69% 1,001
London +11 701 £82,500 -2.94% 692
North of England +18 539 £70,000 +14.37% 266
North West +52 458 £67,037 +7.26% 144
South East -22 253 £70,000 +13.82% 339
Midlands +25 153 £66,250 +1.92% 115
Scotland -15 147 £77,500 +19.23% 74
South West +17 105 £71,991 +19.99% 80
West Midlands +24 91 £70,000 +7.69% 68
Yorkshire -40 74 £72,250 +18.04% 94
East Midlands +33 62 £60,000 +9.09% 47
East of England -11 52 £62,500 -3.85% 74
Wales +4 16 £52,000 -5.45% 23
North East -9 7 £55,000 -10.14% 31
Northern Ireland +16 4 £50,000 -23.08% 36

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 207 (10.43%) Confluence
2 28 (1.41%) CMS
3 25 (1.26%) Apache
4 23 (1.16%) Jupyter
5 19 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
6 17 (0.86%) Apache Spark
7 16 (0.81%) JBoss
8 11 (0.55%) Headless CMS
9 10 (0.50%) Red Hat Fuse
10 8 (0.40%) Appian
10 8 (0.40%) OpenStack
11 7 (0.35%) IIS
12 6 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 5 (0.25%) nginx
14 4 (0.20%) GemFire
14 4 (0.20%) SAS
14 4 (0.20%) SharePoint
14 4 (0.20%) Tomcat
15 3 (0.15%) NServiceBus
15 3 (0.15%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 8 (0.40%) Maya
1 8 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.15%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.10%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
1 8 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.10%) Eikon
2 2 (0.10%) Endur
2 2 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.10%) RMDS
2 2 (0.10%) SimCorp Dimension
3 1 (0.050%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.050%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,137 (57.28%) AWS
2 1,033 (52.04%) Azure
3 585 (29.47%) GCP
4 209 (10.53%) Serverless
5 135 (6.80%) Azure DevOps
6 98 (4.94%) GitHub
7 96 (4.84%) SaaS
8 86 (4.33%) AWS Lambda
9 80 (4.03%) Amazon EC2
9 80 (4.03%) Amazon S3
10 69 (3.48%) Amazon EKS
11 62 (3.12%) Amazon ECS
12 58 (2.92%) Azure Service Bus
13 48 (2.42%) AWS CloudFormation
13 48 (2.42%) Cloud Computing
14 43 (2.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 39 (1.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 36 (1.81%) Amazon SQS
16 36 (1.81%) GitHub Actions
17 33 (1.66%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 26 (1.31%) Network Security
2 20 (1.01%) HTTP
3 19 (0.96%) Firewall
4 18 (0.91%) Internet
5 8 (0.40%) DNS
6 7 (0.35%) WAN
7 6 (0.30%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.25%) SD-WAN
9 4 (0.20%) 3GPP
9 4 (0.20%) 5G
9 4 (0.20%) Broadband
10 2 (0.10%) Intrusion Detection
10 2 (0.10%) LAN
10 2 (0.10%) SSH
10 2 (0.10%) Wireshark
11 1 (0.050%) AMQP
11 1 (0.050%) NAS
11 1 (0.050%) SAN
11 1 (0.050%) SCTP
11 1 (0.050%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 378 (19.04%) SQL Server
2 216 (10.88%) NoSQL
3 186 (9.37%) MongoDB
4 180 (9.07%) PostgreSQL
5 129 (6.50%) Relational Database
6 76 (3.83%) MySQL
7 70 (3.53%) Big Data
8 65 (3.27%) Elasticsearch
9 64 (3.22%) DynamoDB
10 46 (2.32%) RDBMS
11 45 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
11 45 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
12 42 (2.12%) Redis
13 27 (1.36%) Amazon Aurora
13 27 (1.36%) Data Lake
14 23 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
15 13 (0.65%) Apache Cassandra
16 11 (0.55%) Oracle Database
17 9 (0.45%) NonStop SQL
18 8 (0.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 336 (16.93%) GitLab
2 330 (16.62%) JIRA
3 301 (15.16%) Maven
4 294 (14.81%) SonarQube
5 278 (14.01%) Cucumber
6 275 (13.85%) Selenium
6 275 (13.85%) Sonatype Nexus
7 261 (13.15%) Bitbucket
8 258 (13.00%) Git
9 190 (9.57%) Jenkins
10 92 (4.63%) JUnit
11 51 (2.57%) Mockito
12 41 (2.07%) Octopus Deploy
12 41 (2.07%) Visual Studio
13 31 (1.56%) JMeter
13 31 (1.56%) Team Foundation Server
14 28 (1.41%) MSBuild
15 23 (1.16%) CircleCI
16 22 (1.11%) Cypress.io
17 20 (1.01%) Postman
General
1 766 (38.59%) Finance
2 606 (30.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 538 (27.10%) Banking
4 396 (19.95%) Social Skills
5 203 (10.23%) Law
6 155 (7.81%) Retail
7 119 (5.99%) Investment Banking
8 90 (4.53%) Corporate Banking
9 89 (4.48%) Analytical Skills
10 86 (4.33%) Public Sector
11 75 (3.78%) Marketing
12 44 (2.22%) Financial Institution
13 34 (1.71%) Front Office
14 21 (1.06%) Back Office
15 20 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
16 19 (0.96%) Games
17 18 (0.91%) Advertising
17 18 (0.91%) Billing
18 16 (0.81%) Legal
19 14 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 771 (38.84%) Software Engineer
2 522 (26.30%) Senior
3 497 (25.04%) Developer
4 304 (15.31%) Lead
5 281 (14.16%) Senior Software Engineer
6 247 (12.44%) Architect
7 145 (7.30%) Java Developer
7 145 (7.30%) Java Engineer
8 120 (6.05%) .NET Developer
9 116 (5.84%) Senior Developer
10 114 (5.74%) Solutions Architect
11 113 (5.69%) Java Software Engineer
12 74 (3.73%) Full-Stack Developer
13 70 (3.53%) C# Developer
14 60 (3.02%) Lead Developer
15 59 (2.97%) Lead Software Engineer
16 54 (2.72%) Senior Architect
17 42 (2.12%) Technical Architect
18 39 (1.96%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 37 (1.86%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 546 (27.51%) Spring
2 538 (27.10%) .NET
3 531 (26.75%) React
4 517 (26.05%) Spring Boot
5 516 (25.99%) Kafka
6 422 (21.26%) RESTful
7 417 (21.01%) HTML
8 394 (19.85%) REST
9 381 (19.19%) CSS
10 320 (16.12%) Node.js
11 285 (14.36%) JPA
12 255 (12.85%) Redux
13 251 (12.64%) Hibernate
14 206 (10.38%) AngularJS
15 153 (7.71%) .NET Core
16 140 (7.05%) HTML5
17 127 (6.40%) Web Services
18 118 (5.94%) CSS3
19 113 (5.69%) Jest
20 101 (5.09%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 385 (19.40%) Product Ownership
2 324 (16.32%) Enterprise Software
3 299 (15.06%) Cloud Native
4 203 (10.23%) Cyberattack
5 195 (9.82%) Self-Motivation
6 182 (9.17%) Linux Command Line
7 173 (8.72%) Distributed Systems
8 72 (3.63%) Algorithms
8 72 (3.63%) Public Cloud
9 71 (3.58%) Management Information System
10 53 (2.67%) Mobile App
11 48 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
12 36 (1.81%) Virtual Team
13 35 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
14 31 (1.56%) Data Structures
15 28 (1.41%) Onboarding
16 24 (1.21%) Distributed Architecture
17 23 (1.16%) Distributed Applications
18 22 (1.11%) Private Cloud
18 22 (1.11%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 271 (13.65%) Linux
2 43 (2.17%) Windows
3 30 (1.51%) Unix
4 20 (1.01%) Android
5 14 (0.71%) Windows Server
6 10 (0.50%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.10%) Debian
8 2 (0.10%) zOS
9 1 (0.050%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,224 (61.66%) Agile
2 1,011 (50.93%) Software Engineering
3 914 (46.05%) CI/CD
4 883 (44.48%) DevOps
5 611 (30.78%) Containerisation
6 523 (26.35%) Mentoring
7 482 (24.28%) Test Automation
8 478 (24.08%) Full-Stack Development
9 454 (22.87%) TDD
10 440 (22.17%) SDLC
11 349 (17.58%) User Experience
12 340 (17.13%) Continuous Improvement
13 339 (17.08%) Scrum
14 329 (16.57%) Front End Development
15 320 (16.12%) Performance Optimisation
16 285 (14.36%) Problem-Solving
17 270 (13.60%) Machine Learning
18 261 (13.15%) Clean Code
19 231 (11.64%) Event-Driven
20 225 (11.34%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 1,062 (53.50%) Java
2 801 (40.35%) JavaScript
3 612 (30.83%) SQL
4 512 (25.79%) Python
5 389 (19.60%) C#
6 279 (14.06%) Go
7 276 (13.90%) TypeScript
8 196 (9.87%) C++
9 194 (9.77%) Rust
10 56 (2.82%) Kotlin
11 47 (2.37%) PHP
12 38 (1.91%) PowerShell
13 34 (1.71%) Shell Script
14 24 (1.21%) Bash
15 23 (1.16%) C
16 22 (1.11%) Apex Code
16 22 (1.11%) Scala
17 15 (0.76%) Groovy
18 14 (0.71%) Ruby
19 11 (0.55%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 328 (16.52%) Security Cleared
2 243 (12.24%) Degree
3 238 (11.99%) AWS Certification
4 220 (11.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 212 (10.68%) DV Cleared
6 179 (9.02%) AWS Certified Developer
7 110 (5.54%) Computer Science Degree
8 97 (4.89%) SC Cleared
9 62 (3.12%) Master's Degree
10 45 (2.27%) Azure Certification
11 15 (0.76%) HND
12 13 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
13 10 (0.50%) ISTQB
14 9 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
15 8 (0.40%) DBS Check
16 7 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 6 (0.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 5 (0.25%) CISM
18 5 (0.25%) CompTIA Security+
18 5 (0.25%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 339 (17.08%) QA
2 114 (5.74%) Accessibility
3 80 (4.03%) GDPR
4 40 (2.02%) HIPAA
5 24 (1.21%) Data Quality
6 16 (0.81%) NIST
6 16 (0.81%) SOC 2
7 10 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (0.50%) SLA
8 7 (0.35%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.30%) CDISC
9 6 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.20%) Basel II
10 4 (0.20%) Basel III
10 4 (0.20%) Dodd-Frank
10 4 (0.20%) IFRS
10 4 (0.20%) IFRS 9
10 4 (0.20%) WCAG
11 3 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.15%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 823 (41.46%) Docker
2 33 (1.66%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (0.45%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.20%) Postfix
6 3 (0.15%) HDFS
6 3 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.15%) vSphere
7 2 (0.10%) KVM
7 2 (0.10%) Terminal Server
7 2 (0.10%) Xen
8 1 (0.050%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.050%) Firmware
8 1 (0.050%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 848 (42.72%) Kubernetes
2 196 (9.87%) Terraform
3 74 (3.73%) Grafana
4 72 (3.63%) Prometheus
5 49 (2.47%) Ansible
6 25 (1.26%) Kibana
7 16 (0.81%) Istio
8 13 (0.65%) Argo
9 11 (0.55%) Progress Chef
10 10 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
11 8 (0.40%) Mesos
12 4 (0.20%) Packer
12 4 (0.20%) Puppet
13 3 (0.15%) Kustomize
14 2 (0.10%) CA Endevor
14 2 (0.10%) CFEngine
14 2 (0.10%) Hadoop YARN
15 1 (0.050%) Check_MK
15 1 (0.050%) logstash
15 1 (0.050%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 254 (12.80%) Solace
2 180 (9.07%) Microsoft
3 76 (3.83%) Google
4 56 (2.82%) Oracle
5 36 (1.81%) Splunk
6 34 (1.71%) Dynatrace
7 33 (1.66%) Salesforce
8 29 (1.46%) IBM
9 23 (1.16%) Atlassian
10 21 (1.06%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 19 (0.96%) Guidewire
12 16 (0.81%) OpenAI
13 15 (0.76%) ServiceNow
14 14 (0.71%) SAP
15 11 (0.55%) YouTube
16 10 (0.50%) VMware
17 9 (0.45%) Bloomberg
17 9 (0.45%) Cisco
18 8 (0.40%) SolarWinds
18 8 (0.40%) Trayport